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Wet July hasn’t fully alleviated drought Modified: 7/23/2021 9:25:31 PM LEBANON — A series of short, intense storms this month have inundated the region, filling rivers with dangerous currents and dampening summer plans. Yet dry conditions persist, and groundwater levels are slow to recover. Donald Womack was selling garlic from his Gilmanton, N.H.-based farm at the Lebanon Farmers Market on Thursday. He said that rain has muddied his soil and forced him to delay his harvest until his equipment can get into the field. “Garlic can only take so much moisture into the bulb itself before it...

On Tuesday, the CME Group’s farm markets plunge. At midsession, the July corn futures are 31¼¢ lower at $6.26. New-crop September futures are 23¾¢ lower at $5.44¼. December corn futures are 20¢ lower at $5.20¼.    July soybean futures are 18½¢ lower at $15.04¼. August soybean futures are 17¾¢ lower at $14.53¾. New-crop November soybean futures are 21¾¢ lower at $13.40½. July wheat futures 12¢ lower at $6.50¼.  July soymeal futures are $13.40 per short ton lower at $386.80. July soy oil futures are 0.82¢ higher at 65.95¢ per pound. In the outside markets, the N...

By Jon Scheve, Superior Feed Ingredients, LLC May corn prices blew past $6, and then a few days later $6.50. Additionally, May futures gained on July futures by almost 10 cents this last week, which is huge, because in a normal week in a normal year a 1-cent move on that spread in a weeks’ time would be a big deal. Basis values across the US also increased another 5 cents this week. These are clear indications that the market is begging for corn and is unable to find it. How much corn is left to sell by farmers? The last USDA WASDE report showed on-farm cash corn prices unchanged at $4.30 f...